Example sentences of "be that we [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reasonable to assume that ancient people were sensitive to the reality of these other levels of existence , living their lives accordingly , and it may be that we should look to this awareness as the origin of much folklore . |
| 2 | Erm but taking a very broad approach to it it may be that we can suggest to the receivers of that erm taking the inconvenience , the extra cost and so on , roughly say half of that account erm |
| 3 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 4 | Erm and er it could be that we could look at that . |
| 5 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
| 6 | Because , hopefully , the product of this discussion is that we 'll look at each grant , judge it on its merits , and then come up with what we think 's the right figure . |
| 7 | Our understanding is that we shall report to [ the directors of Growing Business PLC ] . |
| 8 | What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind . |
| 9 | This has never had it so this as far as I 'm concerned really , the only thing that is needs to be made clear , is that we must accept of principle that 's all we need to reason . |
| 10 | I suppose what I 'm really saying is that we should stop for a second each time we leap to elevate some young lad or lass to godlike status for a fifteen second guitar solo , and think about Paul McCartney penning Yesterday at age 23 . |
| 11 | If we have not got through for what we need to er examine then the proposition is that we should reconvene at five thirty this evening . |
| 12 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |
| 13 | A fourth option which has been advocated is that we should draw upon American experience and adopt a ‘ hard look ’ standard of review for discretionary decisions . |
| 14 | One expectation is that we should look like professionals . |
| 15 | We need a relational database to store our accounting data in , and whilst our overall approach is that we will work with potentially Ansi S Q L compliant relational database , I would like to emphasize that has been our primary development environment over the last two years . |
| 16 | And the spirit of the exercise is that we will work as a team , and the most cost-effective procedure will exist . |
| 17 | Now a very important issue in relation to conforming with requirements is that we can go over the top , we can go O T T as we say . |
| 18 | In this novel , he argues , the particular pattern of frequencies sets up its own expectancies , and the consequence is that we can generalize beyond the text , and judge whether a particular non-occurring sentence would be appropriate to its " language " or not . |
| 19 | The answer is that we can gamble on their occurrence and their nature by so arranging matters that we might profit from them . |
| 20 | ‘ The big difference in the League of Ireland is that we can train on Saturdays as well as two nights a week — because our matches are played on Sunday . |
| 21 | ‘ The big difference in the League of Ireland is that we can train on Saturdays as well as two nights a week — because our matches are played on Sunday . |
| 22 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 23 | Unemployment was over three million and one strong view was that we should wait until the autumn when the economic recovery would be more apparent . |